The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-09-11


others have followed their example, and hun
dreds of acres of the reclaimed marsh land have
been planted this year. Several hundred acres
of peppermint will be raised this year, the oil of
which commands a ready market and good
prices. The oil is extracted by means of still,
involving the principles of evaporation and
densaton. It possesses valuable medicinal quail
tiles and is also used for favoring and perfum-
ire purposes.
THE Duke of Marlborough. whose presence in
this country is exciting interest among the
Anglomaniacs ia the Eastern summer resorts,
brings with him unsavory reputation. which
is not only the outgrowth of his own bad life,
but is. in a great measure hereditary. John
Churchill, the founder of the house Of MARI
borough, is graphically sketched by Thackeray.
in Henry Esmond;" and the descendant seems
to have many of the bad characteristics of his
eminent proeenitor. Here is the portrait:
"Our chief. whom England and all Europe,
saving only the Frenchman. worshipped almost,
had this of the godike in him, that he was i'm
passible before victory. before danger before de-
feat. Before the greatest obstacle of the most
men drawn In battalia; a peasant slaughtered
at the door of his burning howell before a carouse
of drunken German lords, or monarch's court or
a cottage table, where his plans were laid, or
enemy's battery, vomiting flame and death, and
strewing corpses round about him. he al
ways cold, calm resoute. like fate. He per-
hood as black as Styx easily as ne paid
compliments or spoke about the weather. He
took mistress, and left her; he betrayed
his benefactor, ard supported him, or
would have murdered him. with the same
calmness always, and having no more remorse
than Clotho when she weaves the thread. or
Lachesis when she cuts it. Our Duke
was as calm at the mouth of a cannon at the
door of a drawing room. Perhaps he could not
have been the great man he was had he had
heart either for love or hatred. or pity or fear.
regret remorse. He achieved the highest
deed of daring, or deepest calculation OF thought
as he performed the very meanest action of
which man is capable; told lie or cheated
fond woman, or robbed poor beggar of a half
penny, with like awful serenity and equal ca
pacity of the highest and lowest acts of our ma
ture. His qualities pretty well known
in the army, where there were parties of
all politics. and of plenty of shrewdness
and wit; but there existed such a perfect conf
dence in him, the first captain of the world,
and such faith and admiration in his prodigious
genius and fortune, that the very men whom he
VIGOROUSLY cheated of their pay, the chiefs
whom he used and injured-for he used all men,
great and small, that came near him. as his in
struments alike. and took something OK theirs.
either some quality or some proDerty-the blood
of soldier, 1t might be, jeweled hat, or
hundred thousand crowns from king, or por-
ton out of a starving sentinels three farth-
ings: or when he young) a kiss from
woman and the gold chain off her neck taking
all he could from woman or man, and having, as
l said, this of the godlike in him. that he could
see hero perish or a sparrow fall, with the
same amount of sympathy for either"
A RECENT number of the Chicago Times
tanned article by Maurice Thompson
Realism and Criticism" in which he criticized
M. Howells pretty freely and severely. The
Literary World comes back at Mr.. Thompson in
defense of Howells and asks ''what is Mr..
Thompson thinking of that he can allow him
self. in public Journal TO make such state
ments as these touching the spirit, not to say
the language. of an author whose distinction is
now second only to that of the older group of
American writers, and whose work is before
America and England to speak for itself in to-
tally different terms" All the same, a good
many people will feel like joining Mr.. Thomp-
son in refusing to accord to Mr.. Howeils the
literary adulation and worship which some crit
les insist his due.
IT Is something for Indiana TO be able to boast
that one of her citizens has made the largest pri
vate donation to the foreign mission cause Of the
Episcopal Church ever made by any
person. The Methodist Church is a great and
powerful organization, and her wealthy mem
Der have given many millions to the mission
cause, but it remained for of Indianas plain
citizens to make the largest single donation on
record, amounting to $130. 900. The world
should know and honor the name of Elijah
Hayes, of Warsaw, who has made this princely
gift. and pronounce with equal admiration that
of his good wife, who freely joined with him in
to the church the entire accumulation
of their lives For disinterestedness and nobility
Of nature the act will challenge universal admi-
ration
ONE of our State exchanges prints a longcom-
from local physician defending
himself from certain criticisms in which, after
informing the community that truth is mighty
and will prevail, he says
.If you had sought and pundered my property.
it could be replaced by time; but what period
can replace a ruined reputation3 He who wounds
my person effects that which medicine may
remedy; but what herb heals the wound OF
sander2 He who ridicules my poverty
proaches nv profession upbraids with that
which industry may retrieve, and integrity may
purify. What riches shall redeem a bankrupt
fame. what power shall blanch the sullied snow
of character
This paraphrase of Shakspeares 'Who steals
my purse steals trash" ETC.. is ardly i'm
provement, though doubtless the writer thought
it was.
A SUBSTITUTE has been reported in the
Georgia Senate for the so-called Glenn bill
WHICH, Wulle 1t VlFLudlly Luo ihLter, dILbluS
the same end. It provides, first, that there
shall be no co-education of the races in any
institution supported in whole or in part by the
State; second, if practced in any such institu-
ton the States support shall at be with
drawn; third. that pupil educated at an insti-
tuition where such coeducation is practiced shall
ever be employed in the public schools of the
State. 1t is said the substitute will probably
become law. It is quite narrow and illiberal
in spirit as the Glenn bill.
AT a conference of the African Methodist
Episcopal Zion church 1--WE aim to get oil the
name inn held in ST. Louis few days ago the
Presid ing elder of the Louisville district gave
the Jefferso vile brethren rather bad name
He said most of them were of the kind judges
gave stays to. They closed the doors against
the pastor, and the speaker had him burst the